Washington — One other intruder has breached one of many nation's most delicate navy bases — the house of Air Pressure One — and this time a resident opened hearth on the trespasser, Joint Base Andrews stated in an announcement late Monday.
Through the incident, which occurred at about 11:30 a.m. Monday, "a person gained unauthorized entry to a JBA housing space," Joint Base Andrews stated within the assertion posted to Twitter. "A resident discharged a firearm, safety forces arrived on scene to apprehend the intruder and regulation enforcement is investigating the incident."
Joint Base Andrews is residence to the fleet of blue and white presidential plane, together with Air Pressure One, Marine One and the "doomsday" 747 plane that may function the nation's airborne nuclear command and management facilities if wanted.
The Air Pressure stated late Monday it did not have something so as to add past the Andrews assertion about Monday's intrusion.
It isn't the primary time the bottom's safety has been breached.
Final March, an armed 17-year-old male was arrested after he and one other individual drove via a safety checkpoint on the set up's important gate, prompting a lockdown on the base. The second individual managed to flee, the bottom stated.
In February 2021, a person received via the navy checkpoint onto the set up, then via further fenced safe areas to realize entry to the flight line and climb right into a C-40, which is the navy's 737-equivalent plane used to fly authorities officers.
That intruder was apprehended as a result of the "mouse ears" cap he was sporting struck an observant airman as odd.
An inspector normal's investigation discovered three important safety failings, beginning with "human error" by a gate safety guard who allowed the person to drive onto the bottom despite the fact that he had no credentials that licensed his entry. Hours later, the person walked undetected onto the flight line by slipping via a fence designed to limit entry. Lastly, he walked onto and off a parked airplane with out being challenged, despite the fact that he wasn't sporting a required badge authorizing entry to the restricted space.